Prairie, Remembered
About 96% of the tallgrass prairie has been lost to development and encroachment, especially in the past 100-150 years. The majority of what’s left of this landscape is in Kansas. However, most of the prairie is inaccessible to the average person with 98% of Kansas land being privately owned. What’s left to the visitor and non-landowner are mostly drive-by viewscapes and brief encounters. The drawings in this body of work are developed in the studio, drawing on the memories of these brief, but intimate encounters with a landscape that is quickly disappearing. They do not present tidy, navigable landscape vistas, but instead describe the experience of being immersed in the landscape.
“Crowned” Mixed media on paper. 57 x 50.5”
“Autumn Goldenrod” Watercolor and pastel on paper. 14x22”
“Box Elder Bugs in Grasses” Mixed media on paper. 8x8”
“High Touch Places” Mixed media on paper. 38x50”
“Prairie, Remembered 48.5x52in” Mixed media on paper. 48x52”
“Prairie, Remembered 53x48in” Mixed media on paper. 53x48”
“Late Winter at Marlatt” Mixed media on paper. 50x60”
“Weeds in July” Mixed media on canvas. 28x32”
“Thinking of” Mixed media on paper. 30x22”
“Old Growth, New Growth” Mixed media on paper. 19x41.5”
“Prairie, Remembered 24x25in” Mixed media on paper. 24x25”
“Prairie, Remembered 90.5x50.5in” Mixed media on paper. 90.5x50.5”
“Abundance” Mixed media on paper. 35x28”
“Goldenrod Dusk” Mixed media on paper. 30x22”
“Prairie, Remembered 51.5x57in” Mixed media on paper. 51.5x57”
“Collecting April 2021” Mixed media on paper 35x28”
“Prairie, Remembered 41.5x50in” Mixed media on paper. 41.5x50”
“Prairie, Remembered 49x50.5in” Mixed media on paper. 49x50.5”
“Prairie, Remembered 49x52in” Mixed media on paper. 49x52”